Yay!!! It works. I dont actually remember ever filling in the back up field in the preferences - however I may have browsed to the file path and hence that caused the problem. It's great not having to fill in the date each time. I think the thing that confused the issue was I was expecting to see a .bak extension as was the case in previous version. Now seeing that the .obk is the default extension (i guess it stands for Orange BacKup) clears it up completely for me.

Many thanks for your help
Greg -- Perth Australia

P.S. For all those who dont know, I have to say this is the best program of its sort to catalogue CDs ;D